“PEACE PROPOSALS”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 5

“PEACE PROPOSALS”

j OF extremely dubious ORIGIN

RECEIVED BY LORD HALIFAX. i NOT CONSIDERED IMPORTANT. i I (British Official Wireless.) I RUGBY, February 29. i According to reports current in London, “peace proposals” were recently brought to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, by Lord Tavistock, and are said to emanate from the German Legation in j Dublin. | It was confirmed on Thursday night that Lord Halifax did receive certain proposals from Lord Tavistock and was concerned to ascertain how far they were genuine. The specious attractiveness of the supposed German peace proposals is noted here to be in marked contrast to Herr Hitler’s recent speeches. In this connection it is recalled that Lord Tavistock has in the past eight years been actively associated with Communism, pacifism, social credit, I Fascism and National Socialism. It is further noted that closely associated with Lord Tavistock in the British Council for Christian Settlement in Europe, for which body 7 he is chairman and which sponsored the publicity 7 of these peace proposals, are Mr John Beckett, at one time a pro-1 minent member of the British Union of Fascists, and Mr William Joyce, who left Britain for Germany a few days before the outbreak of war and since has been employed in Germany to broadcast anti-British propaganda over the German wireless. It is believed in London that the notorious “Lord Haw Haw” is the same William Joyce. In view of the source from which the peace proposals are said to emanate and the character of their British sponsors, informed quarters here are inclined to attach but little importance to them.